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advanced2 days (16h)in-person

Designing Observable, Reliable JVM Systems

Architecting backend systems that stay diagnosable and reliable under real production load. Operability, instrumentation, failure modes, latency and memory pressure, and the diagnostic mindset for long-lived JVM platforms.

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Overview

Architecting backend systems that stay diagnosable and reliable under real production load. Over two days we work through operability, instrumentation, failure modes, latency and memory pressure, and the diagnostic mindset that keeps long-lived JVM platforms healthy.

Workshop Approach

This is a design-focused workshop. We reason about architectures, trade-offs, and failure scenarios, grounding each decision in how the system will actually be operated and diagnosed.

Who This Is For

It is aimed at architects and senior engineers responsible for backend systems that need to stay reliable and understandable over the long term.

What You Will Learn

  • Design systems that remain diagnosable under real production load
  • Build operability and instrumentation in from the start
  • Reason about failure modes and their blast radius
  • Manage latency and memory pressure in long-lived JVM platforms
  • Cultivate a diagnostic mindset across an engineering team

Agenda

1

Operability by Design

Treating operability as a first-class architectural concern, not an afterthought.

2

Instrumentation

Designing systems that emit the signals needed to understand them in production.

3

Failure Modes

Anticipating how systems degrade and fail, and designing for graceful behaviour.

4

Latency & Memory Pressure

Architectural choices that shape latency and memory behaviour at scale.

5

Long-Lived JVM Platforms

Keeping JVM systems reliable and maintainable as they evolve over years.

6

The Diagnostic Mindset

Building habits and tooling that let teams move from symptoms to root cause.

Training Details

Duration
2 days (16h)
Format
in-person
Level
advanced
Target Audience
  • System architects
  • Senior backend developers
  • Platform engineers
  • Tech leads

Prerequisites

  • Experience designing or owning backend services
  • Solid working knowledge of the JVM
  • Familiarity with production operations and on-call